Thats what I used in the view file - I'll move it over to its own partial to keep things tidy in the templates. Can you create your own HTML helpers available for all templates? Like allowing that code above to be sent the browser if you just provide certain details?

Re: in_place_editor_field

Your discussion about the in_place_editor_field was very helpful. But now what is the point of these fields if you can't validate or edit empty fields? Users now can leave fields empty or fill them with meaningless text. So in the end I write my own actions for every in_place_edit_field?

The rails recipes book has a simple solution and says just to just default values like "click to edit". How could you implement this and is there a way to validate?